Iron Mountain ski jump

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

What Bait Should You Use?

I
think that the lection for this coming Sunday, January 25, Mark 1:14-20, about
“fishing for men,” has been one of the most fruitful Bible stories for humor,
although it is now translated, properly, as fishing for “people” instead of
men. The more inclusive translation does cut down considerably on humorous
possibilities.

I
was once talking about this scripture during the “time with children” in our
main Sunday morning worship service. This being a camping and fishing sort of
congregation, [at least that is what they told me they were doing when they
were not in church], one of the kids asked, “If you’re fishing for men, what
would you use for bait?”

I,
of course, did what one should never do with children. I turned it back to
them. “What do you think you would use for bait?” I asked the kids. Corey
Schuleter spoke up, very loudly. “If you’re fishing for men, you’d use women
for bait.”

Corey’s
parents took him camping for several weeks after that.

John
Robert McFarland

johnrobertmcfarland@gmail.com

The
“place of winter” mentioned in the title line is Iron Mountain, in Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula [The UP], where life is defined by winter even in the summer!
[This phrase is explained in the post for March 20, 2014.]

I
used to keep a careful index of all the things I told in this blog so that I
would not repeat. That has become unwieldy. Now I just trust to memory. Sorry
about that.

I
have also started an author blog, about writing, in preparation for the
publication, by Black Opal Books, of my novel, VETS, about four handicapped and homeless Iraqistan veterans who
are accused of murdering a VA doctor, n 2015. http://johnrobertmcfarland-author.blogspot.com/